Quotes from Art Spiegelman

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book ' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.

No, darling! To die it's easy... But you have to stuggle for life!

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

Yes, life always takes the side of life, and somehow the victims are blamed. But it wasn't the best people who survived, nor did the best ones die. It was random!

Disaster is my muse.

I know this is insane, but I somehow wish I had been in Auschwitz with my parents so I could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.

Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew... it would scare them.

If you want to live, it's good to be friendly.

I'm not talking about YOUR book now, but look at how many books have already been written about the Holocaust. What's the point? People haven't changed... Maybe they need a newer, bigger Holocaust.

But here God didn't come. We were all on our own.

if they brought you here,They'll put you to work. THEY'RE not readyto kill you YET.

I dunno…maybe everyone has to feel guilty. Everyone! Forever!

Maybe your father needed to show that he was always right - that he could always SURVIVE - because he felt GUILTY about surviving.

Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if they're open or they're close, always I'm thinking on Anja.

DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS A MIDGET MUST GO!